Surrender Under Protest

Album: American Band (2016)
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  • From the comfort zone of history
    On the lips of trusted loved ones
    To the lonely, fragile minds of angry youths

    No sooner was it over
    Than the memory made it nobler
    The selective means by which to point the view

    Compelled, but not defeated
    Surrender under protest if you must
    Compelled, but not defeated

    If it's all you can remember
    Then it's been that way forever
    And for six long generations it's been told

    But among the fallen was tradition
    That tradition was the mission
    And that the wrongness of the sin was not the goal

    Compelled, but not defeated
    Surrender under protest if you must
    Compelled, but not defeated

    Does the color really matter?
    On the face you blame for failure
    On the shamin' for a battle's losing cause

    If the victims and aggressors
    Just remain each others others
    And the instigators never fight their own

    Compelled, but not defeated
    Surrender under protest if you must
    Compelled, but not defeated
    Surrender under protest if you must
    Surrender under protest if you must Writer/s: MIKE COOLEY
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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